Potential for Marquette

[Marquette4life]

I don't know how to set up a poll lol. What do you guys think the possibilities are for this team?

[Lennys Tap]

Somewhere between "not in the tournament" and National Champs.

[wadesworld]

Somewhere between "not in the tournament" and National Champs.

I think "not in the Tournament" is still included in our possibilities.

[Stretchdeltsig]

Yes.  Marquette makes a good run in the NCAA tournament.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Uhhhhhhhhhh

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Somewhere between "not in the tournament" and National Champs.

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[GGGG]

Top end:  Around a 6 seed in the NCAA tournament and a first round victory.

Bottom end:  First round home game loss in the NIT

[MUBigDance]

I say 20 wins and 8/9 seed.

[forgetful]

Top end:  Around a 6 seed in the NCAA tournament and a first round victory.

Bottom end:  First round home game loss in the NIT

I'd up the top end to a 6 seed and sneaking into the sweet 16 on hot shooting from M2N and company.

But essentially this nails it.

[Daniel]

Was just in Vegas. Put some money down on Marquette to win it all.  Odds were only 120-1.  Not bad. 

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=53377.0

[Galway Eagle]

I think it's funny to that everybody expects us to make a run in the tournament. Wades first team couldn't, the big three and Zar couldn't for 5yrs, maybe we win the first round game but unless we pull and unreal performance I don't see us in the sweet 16

[bilsu]

I think it's funny to that everybody expects us to make a run in the tournament. Wades first team couldn't, the big three and Zar couldn't for 5yrs, maybe we win the first round game but unless we pull and unreal performance I don't see us in the sweet 16

That is one of the reasons I was so dissappointed in not making the NIT last year. Young teams without tournament experience just do not realize how much the intensity ratches up in an one & done tournament game. You also need to adjust to the referees, which may have a style that is diffenent than Big East officials. I could see MU getting to the Sweet 16, if they survive the first round game. I just do not think they will be ready enough to win the first round game.

[tower912]

11 seed.   One and done. 

[GoldenDieners32]

If we get our job done during the regular season by going 7-2 or maybe even 8-1. Then making a solid run in the BETourney i feel like we will make the tourney as a 6-8 seed but no run. We are just too young.

[tower912]

Not 'too young'.    Too inexperienced in that situation. 

[MerrittsMustache]

Top end:  Around a 6 seed in the NCAA tournament and a first round victory.

Bottom end:  First round home game loss in the NIT

This.

[GoldenDieners32]

Top end:  Around a 6 seed in the NCAA tournament and a first round victory.

Bottom end:  First round home game loss in the NIT

How would we get to the "Top End"

[burger]

Somewhere between a 9 seed and the NIT......

Tonight we need to respond.....

[MerrittsMustache]

How would we get to the "Top End"

MU goes 8-1 down the stretch with no "bad losses" (22-8 / 13-5) and at least gets to the BET title game (24-9 or 25-8). They'd likely have an RPI in the mid-20s plus some additional quality W's along the way. That earns a 6-seed.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

This team has the "potential" to win some games in the NCAA tournament.  That doesn't mean I "expect" them to.

They could also get bounced first game. They could also somehow end up 8-10 in conference and miss the tournament all together (although I see that as pretty unlikely, and I think we'd still get consideration at 9-9 as we now have pretty much the best win among possible bubble teams). 

That is life with a team that is so reliant on shooting the 3.  But if this team gets hot at the right time, I can tell you what, no one is going to want to get paired in MU's region in the tourney. A bunch of these teams will have not sniffed scoring 90 points in a game against a high major, let alone consistently.

[fjm]

This team has the "potential" to win some games in the NCAA tournament.  That doesn't mean I "expect" them to.

They could also get bounced first game. They could also somehow end up 8-10 in conference and miss the tournament all together (although I see that as pretty unlikely, and I think we'd still get consideration at 9-9 as we now have pretty much the best win among possible bubble teams). 

That is life with a team that is so reliant on shooting the 3.  But if this team gets hot at the right time, I can tell you what, no one is going to want to get paired in MU's region in the tourney. A bunch of these teams will have not sniffed scoring 90 points in a game against a high major, let alone consistently.

Yep. We've put some real high scores up against some good solid D's.

That said, we've also lost some games because of late collapses where our shot stops dropping and our D continues to be horrible.

Here's hoping for an 7-9 seed. That would be more than successful for this season for me.

Also agree that 9-9 still gets us in as a 9 or a 10 without having to "play in". (Assuming none of the losses are SJU or Depaul)

[GoldenDieners32]

This team has the "potential" to win some games in the NCAA tournament.  That doesn't mean I "expect" them to.

They could also get bounced first game. They could also somehow end up 8-10 in conference and miss the tournament all together (although I see that as pretty unlikely, and I think we'd still get consideration at 9-9 as we now have pretty much the best win among possible bubble teams). 

That is life with a team that is so reliant on shooting the 3.  But if this team gets hot at the right time, I can tell you what, no one is going to want to get paired in MU's region in the tourney. A bunch of these teams will have not sniffed scoring 90 points in a game against a high major, let alone consistently.

if we get hot it will be a bad day for the team we play

[wadesworld]

MU goes 8-1 down the stretch with no "bad losses" (22-8 / 13-5) and at least gets to the BET title game (24-9 or 25-8). They'd likely have an RPI in the mid-20s plus some additional quality W's along the way. That earns a 6-seed.

I certainly don't know this, but if we go into the tournament at 24-9 (which would include a BET final loss to, presumably, Nova, and a 2nd place finish in the BE regular season, because nobody is finishing with less than 5 losses other than Nova), I'm thinking that's more of a 4 seed than a 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament the way this season is going in college basketball as a whole.  There are a lot of losses still to happen for teams between 15 and 50 in the NCAA this year (just look at last week).  If we go 10-2 from now until the start of the NCAA Tournament we're jumping up big time I think, and right now it appears we're in the 8-9 seed range.

[muwarrior69]

I don't know how to set up a poll lol. What do you guys think the possibilities are for this team?

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